Comment 142 for bug 195698
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Why not? In every conceivable use case, the dialog is going to be user-initiated (application startup, surfing to a site or opening a tab or window consciously). In user-initiated situations I don't see a real problem in blocking the entire application for access to an application wide facility.
While I agree right away that window-modal would be better, I would argue it an option to go for a relatively simple solution in 3.0.1 and then fix it better in 3.1 or 3.5. The current problems are worse than the backlash of the quick fix, being that a user cannot continue browsing in a window he wasn't using anyway at the time it popped up.
Also - would the other window block until you also opened a protected site there? In a mutex solution it would only block threads *also* accessing the central password storage, wouldn't it? Again, I'm not familiar with the Firefox code internals, but that's my base assumption here.